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2006-01-27 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

U.N. Chief Asks U.S. to Give Iran Reactors

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Posted by Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-01-27 19:28|| || Front Page|| [11139 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Now if you presupposed tha the US gets to run them as well.

Posted by Hupomoger Clans9827">Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-01-27 19:41|| 2006-01-27 19:41|| Front Page Top

#2 And how many months will this proposal be "negotiated" before Iran declines. And what will the proposal after that one be? And how many months will that successor proposal be "negotiated" before Iran declines it as well? And what will the proposal after that one be? And how many months will that successor to the successor proposal be "negotiated" before Iran declines that one as well? And what will the proposal after that one be? And how many months will that successor to the successor to the successor proposal be "negotiated" before Iran declines that one as well? And how many stupid proposal/"negotiate"/Iran-declines cycles will we witness until the world wakes up one day with the realization that IRAN HAS *WON* by buying all of this "negotiating" time and that they now possess the nuclear means to fulfill their wet-dream of a nuclear attack on Israel?

Posted by Crusader 2006-01-27 20:48|| 2006-01-27 20:48|| Front Page Top

#3 I don't want to GIVE them anything. Oil-fired and gas-fired power plants are a lot cheaper and quicker to build and a lot cheaper for them to fuel. And they can afford them -- just look at all the money they've had for tunnels and nukes and missiles. But if I do have to give them something, I'll choose to give them fusioning plutonium at 3,000 ft over Qom. That will be a gift that will be memorable and will even impress North Korea and Pakistan.

Posted by Darrell 2006-01-27 20:49|| 2006-01-27 20:49|| Front Page Top

#4 Actually, thorium based reactors that cannot breed weapons grade material would make a lot of sense. Exactly why America is supposed to foresake so much treasure to an oil-rich petroleum exporting country is beyond me. I can only assume that we must be punished for insisting upon rational solutions to problems, unlike most of the remaining world.

Posted by Zenster 2006-01-27 21:02|| 2006-01-27 21:02|| Front Page Top

#5 worst case we were already proposing chain reactions in various Iranian locales

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-01-27 21:08|| 2006-01-27 21:08|| Front Page Top

#6 #3 Darrell says: I don't want to GIVE them anything.

Now, now, Darrell - are you sure there isn't anything you'd like to give them?

Or at least have the USAF deliver on your behalf? ;-p

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2006-01-27 21:36|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-01-27 21:36|| Front Page Top

#7 I take it you missed my "if I do have to give them something, I'll choose to give them fusioning plutonium at 3,000 ft over Qom".

Posted by Darrell 2006-01-27 21:50|| 2006-01-27 21:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Zenster: thorium reactors are a bad idea.

See articles like this one on Isomer wars.

Posted by 3dc 2006-01-27 22:20|| 2006-01-27 22:20|| Front Page Top

#9 The Iranians have used their wealth on developing expensive reactors and weapons systems. They do not have the refining capacity to produce their own gasoline and fuel oil, and they are a major oil exporter. We owe them nothing. That is the wonderful thing about freedom of choice. You can choose to be smart or stupid with your God-given wealth. The Iranian people need to make the choice, and live with the consequences.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-01-27 22:30|| 2006-01-27 22:30|| Front Page Top

#10 But for now, you diplomatically make them "an offer they can't refuse".

The ultimate dipfufflebarg - and when refused, allows even EU dips to gehey with numbing Iran.

But, I ponder, is it dipsy enough to get MSM beating drums?

What say?

Posted by Hupomoger Clans9827">Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-01-27 22:46|| 2006-01-27 22:46|| Front Page Top

#11 addendum...
Ya don't actually do this. this is the new bafflegarb that goes on. But my, what a heck of new slant.

Posted by Hupomoger Clans9827">Hupomoger Clans9827 2006-01-27 22:55|| 2006-01-27 22:55|| Front Page Top

#12 U.N. nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei on Friday called on the United States to provide Iran with nuclear reactors and..

Un. Phuquing. Believable.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2006-01-27 23:33|| 2006-01-27 23:33|| Front Page Top

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